Jan 18, 2025 | Essays, Non-Fiction |
Man is unique insofar as he constitutes two events. The event of his biological organism – and, in this, he is like tortoise and hare – and the event of his consciousness. Thus in man two times coexist, corresponding with these two events. The time during...
Dec 28, 2024 | Essays, Non-Fiction, Travel |
Minneapolis Aeronautic missionary of the silent majorities, I jump with cat-like tread from one airport to the other. Now it’s the blazing woods of New Hampshire, casting a fleeting reflection in the mirror of New England. Yesterday, it was the steepling gentleness of...
May 15, 2024 | Essays, Geekery, Non-Fiction
The analogy between cars and operating systems is not half bad, and so let me run with it for a moment, as a way of giving an executive summary of our situation today. Imagine a crossroads where four competing auto dealerships are situated. One of them (Microsoft) is...
Apr 27, 2024 | Essays, Non-Fiction |
On January 18, 1915, six months into the first world war, as all Europe was convulsed by killing and dying, Virginia Woolf wrote in her journal, “The future is dark, which is on the whole, the best thing the future can be, I think.” Dark, she seems to say,...
Mar 23, 2024 | Essays, Geekery, Non-Fiction |
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless...
Mar 16, 2024 | Essays, Non-Fiction
This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do — not why it works when it’s good, not why it doesn’t when it’s bad....